Estonian prosecutors charged Svetlana Burceva, a 57-year-old Russian-Estonian journalist, with treason and violating international sanctions on Moscow, the AFP news agency reported, quoting a statement from state prosecutor Eneli Laurits. Burceva has been working with Estonian online sites controlled by Russia’s state-owned Rossiya Segodnya media group since 2017.
A Moscow court jailed Russian military blogger Andrei Kurshin for six-and-a-half years after the former soldier was found guilty of “knowingly spreading false information about Russia’s armed forces”. Kurshin had accused Russian forces of cutting water supplies to Ukrainian civilians and bombing a maternity hospital on his Telegram channel.
Russian-American dual citizen Ksenia Karelina pleaded guilty in a Russian court to a charge of treason, state news agency RIA Novosti quoted her lawyer as saying on Wednesday. Karelina is on trial in the city of Yekaterinburg over a donation she made in 2022 to a charity supporting Ukraine.
